Start Where You Are: The Beginner’s 5k Running Guide for Women

Start Where You Are is a beginner’s guide to running for women. It will challenge misconceptions and offer a positive and motivating guide to get you started.

 

A book for all women at the start of—or resuming after a break—their running journeys and looking to run up to 5 and 10k distances.

In 2009 a GP recommended Sabrina try running to manage her post-natal depression. It transformed her life and she hasn’t stopped since. She is now a UK Athletics qualified Leader in Running Fitness, a Coach in Running Fitness and a qualified personal trainer with a passion for helping other women, wherever they are in their running journeys.

This friendly, attractive manual features motivational support, technique guidance, practical advice, real-life runner testimonies and strength and conditioning exercises. It also includes valuable tips about how to run during menopause, toilet issues on the run, fuelling and hydration, menstrual cycles, common injuries, how to run safely at night, injuries, finding the running community for you—and much more.

Above all, it strips back the experience to the fundamentals. It’s about instilling freedom and joy in movement, the perfect starting point for all women—irrespective of age or running experience.